{"id":16830,"date":"2023-12-24T01:56:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/archers-and-eastenders-actor-ian-pepperell-dies-at-53-ents-arts-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-24T01:56:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T20:26:24","slug":"archers-and-eastenders-actor-ian-pepperell-dies-at-53-ents-arts-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/archers-and-eastenders-actor-ian-pepperell-dies-at-53-ents-arts-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Archers and EastEnders actor Ian Pepperell dies at 53 | Ents & Arts News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ian Pepperell, best known for playing Roy Tucker in The Archers, has died aged 53, the BBC has announced.<\/p>\n

The actor, who played the hotelier in the long-running BBC<\/strong> Radio 4 drama for 22 years, died on Friday following a long illness.<\/p>\n

He also acted in numerous stage productions and appeared in BBC soap opera EastEnders<\/strong> for a short stint during his career.<\/p>\n

The Archers editor Jeremy Howe said: “Ian was the perfect Archers actor – he loved being part of an ensemble, relished the camaraderie and gossip of the Green Room, and had a seemingly effortlessly fine tuned vocal technique.<\/p>\n

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“Like all the very best radio actors he could think on his feet and change the way he played a scene in the blink of an eye.<\/p>\n

“Thanks to Ian’s brilliance, he created in Roy a character who managed to face in two directions simultaneously in almost every scene he played.”<\/p>\n

The character featured in a number of dramatic storylines within the show, including a New Year’s Eve episode in which Roy asked Hayley Jordan, played by Lucy Davis, to marry him.<\/p>\n

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Mr Howe said: “He captured Roy as both genial and anxious, funny and sad, easy-going and permanently stressed – a man who could hold down with ease a top job, yet who always carried with him Hamlet’s sense of failure.<\/p>\n

“It all made perfect sense because of Ian’s uncanny and laser-guided ability to find humour in the emotional scenes and find pathos in the comedy that he always played so unerringly well.<\/p>\n

“Ian had a lot more gas in the tank and was desperate to return to Ambridge once his health permitted.<\/p>\n

“It is tragic that he died in his prime, we will miss him dearly and our hearts go out to his family and friends and everyone who knew him.<\/p>\n

“Ambridge loved Roy – The Archers and our millions of listeners loved Ian’s Roy Tucker.”<\/p>\n

In the theatre world, he played Hamlet for the Oxford Stage Company and Richard III at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester.<\/p>\n

The actor also appeared in a number of episodes of EastEnders in 1993 and featured in police drama The Bill.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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